Double-blind comparison of doxepin and desipramine in patients with primary affective disorder

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Abstract
A double-blind comparison of doxepin and desipramine was performed in carefully defined patients with research diagnoses of primary affective disorder. While both drugs showed equal efficacy after 4 wk, doxepin demonstrated a more rapid onset of action and surprisingly few side effects. Desipramine did not prove to be activating and did not worsen agitated depression. Although doxepine showed few autonomic side effects, it was sedating, indicating that tricyclics with more anticholinergic effects are not necessarily more sedating drugs.

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